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Jason Schulte is a reporter for the New Richmond News since February 2015. Prior to that he spent eight years at the Pierce County Herald in Ellsworth. His duties with the News will include covering news out of Hammond and Roberts along with action from St. Croix County court system. He lives in Roberts.

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Todd Andrews grew up in the Boston area, but has called Pierce County home for the last five years. "It was such a culture shock," he said about the initial adjustment. However, the shock wore off quickly, as evident by the following story he likes to tell. Andrews was on the phone with a friend back in Boston and the friend told him he was going to a New England Patriots football game. The friend, however, was complaining about how cold it was going to be. Andrews asked him was the temperature was going to be. "22" the friend replied. "Below?" was Andrews' response.

With Valentine's Day coming up Saturday, Feb. 14, there are many ways to thank that special person in your life: flowers, candy, other assorted gifts or song. That's right. Locally, the Croix Chordsmen will send a barbershop quartet Feb. 13-14 to sing for your Valentine, either at their home, office, classroom, restaurant or anywhere you so choose. River Falls native Dick Kelm belongs to one of the six quartets making up the Chordsmen.

The Ellsworth Fire Department was called out to a residence just south of Ellsworth on Monday at around 1:30 p.m. to put out a house fire. The residence is located at N4206 810th St., and records show is currently owned by a L.G. McGregor, however the property is being purchased by Scotty Roberts. According to Roberts, the man he's buying the house from used water from an outside spigot for the horses. However, because the spigot was frozen the man used a torch to thaw it out -- something he had done in the past.

A River Falls man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days jail for misdemeanor criminal damage to property in Pierce County Circuit Court as part of a plea agreement. Mark A. Nicholson, 33, was originally charged with arson, a Class C felony. He was also placed on one year probation and ordered to follow through with treatment. The charge stems from a June 4 incident in which the Pierce County Sheriff's Department was notified of a house fire at W7250 870th Ave. in the Town of Martell.

PLUM CITY -- The annual 3-on-3 basketball tournament supported by the Plum City Public Library will not be held this year. The library informed the Plum City School District before last week's board meeting they are canceling the event this year due to financial reasons, but it will resume next year. The library's request to use the gymnasium April 3-4 for the tournament was on the board agenda. In other news, the board: --Announced candidates for the upcoming spring election.

It was a move Johnny Solomon felt he couldn't pass up. When Confluence chef Mark McGraw notified Solomon in October his space would become available, Solomon, owner of The Boxcar restaurant since last April, jumped at the chance. "The reasoning was that it would give us a bigger room and a more complete kitchen," Solomon said. Last month, it became official as The Boxcar reopened at 211 Broad St.

Connie Shay was seeking a fresh start after 20 years of being a stylist. "I had a lot of my clients tell me that I should start my own business," she said, as Shay had spent the last 15 years working for Great Clips in Cottage Grove, Minn.

A River Falls man was sentenced Tuesday to 30 days jail for misdemeanor criminal damage to property in Pierce County Circuit Court as part of a plea agreement. Mark A. Nicholson, 33, was originally charged with arson, a Class C felony. He was also placed on one year probation and ordered to follow through with treatment. The charge stems from a June 4 incident in which the Pierce County Sheriff's Department was notified of a house fire at W7250 870th Ave. in the Town of Martell.

Mother Nature left her mark on Pierce County last week. With temperatures at or around the minus 25 mark, excluding the wind chill, on Thursday and Friday, students in the Ellsworth, Elmwood, Plum City, Prescott and Spring Valley school districts got an unplanned two-day vacation.

Debbie Rustad was a fit person for the first 39 years of her life. "I was so healthy and energetic," she said. "I laid sod; I nearly built a deck by myself. I had tons and tons of energy." All that started to change last July, two months after her 40th birthday. During a self-exam, Rustad found a lump on her left breast. She expressed concern, but due to her family's history -- there's been a history of lumps, but no breast cancer -- the worries faded. Those feelings changed quickly as the lump started getting harder, bigger and more painful.